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“We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the skies so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.”
― Johannes Kepler

tags: diversity, nature, rich, science

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“We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness”
― Voltaire, Candide

tags: trouble

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“It is the privilege of the rich
To waste the time of the poor
To water with tears in secret
A tree that grows in secret
That bears fruit in secret
That ripened falls to the ground in secret
And manures the parent tree
Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret
The sap rising and the tears falling.”
― Stevie Smith, Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

tags: childe-rolandine, employment, hope, poor, rich, work

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“You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while the poor get poorer". No! Something good can come out from you no matter who you are, what you have done and where you have been to!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss.

'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

tags: fitzgerald, freedom, poor, rich, the-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz

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